FOOD SUPPLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9

FOOD SUPPLIES.

Dominion Portion Of British Menu Increases. MEAT AN EXCEPTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January IT. Striking facts and figures about Britain's food supplies are contained in a Blue Book issued yesterday dealing with the changes between pre-war and post-war supplies. The Ministry of Agriculture, adopts for the purposes of comparison the years 1005 to 1010 and 1924 to 1927 respectively as representing periods for which accurate statistics are most readily available. The most notable fact which emerges from the analysis Is the extent to which Dominion supplies of food have increased. There has been a substantial increase in receipts of wheat from British countries and, in spite of the diminution in the contribution from home-grown wheat, the proportion of the total supply derived from Empire sources in the post-war period exceeds 00 per cent compared with 50 per cent in the pre-war period. The post-war wheat and flour supplies from Canada are three times greater than the pre-war volume. Empire barlev consignments to Britain have multiplied four times. There are heavy decreases in the imports from foreign countries. Foreign! consignments of meat to Britain, however, have increased.